Participants: Paula Eakins, Curtis Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00151A
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00:01 What is the role of Calcium in the bones?
00:04 And what about Calcium balance? What about 00:06 those Calcium supplements in Calcium-rich foods? 00:10 Well, we are going to explore those issues 00:12 and more in our program entitled, 00:14 Building better bones part II, so stay by. 00:45 Hi welcome to Abundant Living. I am glad you've 00:48 invited us to your living room today as always, 00:50 and I would like to introduce myself Curtis Eakins, 00:53 and this is my beautiful bride Paula Eakins, 00:56 how are you doing today? I am doing fine, thank you. 00:58 Okay you're looking mighty good too. Thank you, 00:59 praise the Lord. You always look good by the way. 01:02 Thank you and praise him. Praise him, thank you, 01:05 alright. Building better bones part II, now of course 01:08 well last week we started this program on Building 01:11 better bones part I and just in case if you missed 01:14 last week's program we're going to do a short review 01:17 before we go into today's topic. But again as we 01:20 mentioned before there was a tease I made last week, 01:23 I am going to repeat that tease, It's a question 01:25 also a sobering answer. And the question was raised 01:29 to women who were over 75 years of age, 01:32 and the question was, would they rather die or break 01:36 a hip and be admitted to a nursing home. 01:40 Over 80 percent of those women said they would 01:43 rather die. Because if we break a hip a lot of 01:47 individuals, 66 percent of those individuals 01:51 lose their independence. So again you could understand 01:55 why most would say they would rather go down 01:57 to a early grave than to break a hip and go into 02:00 the nursing home. And also women are so independent. 02:03 Well, that's true too; yes, you know I can see, yes, 02:05 how that would cause a problem. Yeah, yeah so 02:08 as I mentioned before last week as well this 02:11 Osteoporosis is an epidemic over the age of 65 years 02:16 of age. So once one reached over 65 is now categorized 02:20 in that age group and beyond as an epidemic. 02:23 So it's called a silent disease because Calcium 02:27 can be snatched from the bones without us even 02:30 knowing about it. You've talked also about testing; 02:32 different types of testing can be done. Yes, okay we 02:34 talked about testing, I talked about the T-score. 02:36 This is the DEXA scan, DEXA, DEXA scan and they will 02:42 measure your bone in three different areas. 02:44 They will measure your bone matrix in the hip, 02:48 the spine and the wrist. And this is very low X-Ray 02:52 that you can receive. So, no problems of receiving, 02:56 you know X-Ray that you may think, it may be more 02:58 than as needed but again they will give you a T-Score 03:03 and -1 to -2.5, in that category is low bone mass. 03:12 Once you dropped below -2.5 and lower than it's 03:16 said be Osteoporosis and in those two categories 03:21 44 million people fall into that category. So again 03:25 it's a devastating disease and one in six women 03:29 will have a fracture before the end of the life. 03:32 So, that's like playing Russian Roulette, 03:34 one in six. Well, one of the reasons we have talked 03:36 also about the factor we said that one in six, 03:38 now we talk about the women in menopause. 03:40 Okay, menopausal woman also post-menopausal 03:43 women. Oh, that's true too, yes. And mainly because 03:45 of the fact that now we're having a problem with the 03:47 hormones, the estrogens specifically. Okay, and 03:50 because of the fact that sometime woman has 03:52 surgical Menopausal at early age, of course that 03:55 sets her into a menopause. And in that situation 03:58 there is a problem with the bone loss. We talked about 04:00 that first five years after Menopause of a woman 04:04 could actually lose her bone matrix, not all of it 04:07 but actually have a problem with the bone matrix 04:09 now having those little holes and stuff in it. 04:11 Yeah, okay, and so, now I understand, now I 04:13 understand too honey that I have mentioned that before 04:15 first five years, because I think we saw a graph 04:17 last week, right. And once they reached the age of 50 04:20 or when they go through Menopause, either surgical 04:22 or natural Menopause that bone matrix begins to 04:26 decline drastically, right, around the age of 50 or 04:29 whenever they go through that period. I think up to 04:32 50 percent of bone lose at that time, absolutely if 04:34 they don't take any replacement therapy 04:37 estrogen in the cells so, let's talk about that 04:40 because last week we talked about if one does not 04:42 take any estrogen replacement therapy then they will 04:44 lose their bone mass. So, how can they counteract that? 04:47 You know Hormone replacement therapy; 04:49 we now talking about Bio-identical therapies. 04:52 This is not the patch or the pill. And there is a whole 04:55 group called, The Academy of Compound Pharmacists, 04:59 and these are Pharmacists that actually do nothing but 05:01 we call them natural protocols when they do 05:03 a prescription or write up a prescription. Okay, 05:05 and of course if you want to know how you can find it 05:07 you can go to our website Hseminars.com, and 05:10 we'll be glad to let you know where these 05:12 telephone numbers are, you can get a hold of them 05:14 but these are all natural, maybe basically for, 05:16 with a soy base, okay but has been very, very good 05:20 as far as not having any side-effects, 05:22 no contraindications or anything for individual 05:25 who would take that rather than the patch or the pill. 05:29 Okay, so we are not talking about Premarin, 05:32 no Premarin. We should, you know what Premarin is? 05:35 Yes. Premarin, Pregnant Mares' Urine. Okay, so 05:40 I don't think we want that, or Prempro, they are all in the 05:43 same category, and of course in 2002 they made 05:47 the announcement. They want women who were taking 05:49 Premarin, Prempro that they want them to come off 05:51 of it because of the side effects, it was not helping 05:54 with heart disease and cancers and that was 05:56 not helping at all. And there were some other 05:58 things that were going on. So, they just stopped 06:00 all research and any woman who was on those they told 06:03 them come off, that's why the compound pharmacists 06:05 is the way to go. Okay, so Premarin, 06:09 Pregnant Mares' Urine. Right. It is not natural 06:12 for us to do that, unless your a horse, unless our 06:15 native food is hay, absolutely, and it is not. 06:18 Yeah, our native food is not hay, so it's natural for us. 06:21 We're talking about our 40 percent, the women who 06:23 are in menopause or post-menopausal women 06:25 in that Osteo issue, because of fact that of the 06:28 estrogen, and testosterone production all those levels 06:31 hormonal but also it's not just that but also 06:35 bad eating habits. Okay, now again, alright, 06:37 as we review we talked about the, in particular 06:41 the animal protein, right. When we take in 06:44 animal protein, it snatches away the Calcium 06:48 from our bones. Calcium is used as a 06:50 buffer so the more animal protein we take in 06:52 whatever source be it pork, chicken, lamb, 06:56 fish, beef, milk, cheese, yogurt whatever it is, 06:59 then the more animal protein we take in the more Calcium 07:02 we lose from our bones, so we are actually peeing out our 07:06 bones alright. The Kidneys excrete the calcium 07:09 and of course we have porous bones, or Osteoporosis. 07:12 So we emphasize that that's why milk, although 07:16 milk has Calcium but we only receive or absorb 07:20 30 percent of Calcium in the cow's milk. And since 07:23 milk also has animal protein it's actually a deficit 07:26 not a benefit in the long run and we have also did 07:29 some clinical studies in reference to that as well. 07:31 So, we are talking about not animal protein but a 07:35 plant based protein that's the way to go because 07:37 when we take that in then we keep the Calcium 07:40 that we're taking into our system. Alright, 07:42 now let's go to some other things. Now we're talking 07:46 about the food pyramid chart. That's new as of 07:49 2005 as we speak here and let's talk about the food 07:52 pyramid chart and then we're going to go into a 07:54 powerful statement as well. Let's talk about food 07:56 pyramid chart. Well, one of things that I got very 07:58 excited about as being in the area of nutrition 08:00 and that is that every four or five years a new 08:03 pyramid chart comes out. Now, this one was different 08:06 because this is the first time the pyramid 08:08 chart not only dealt with food, it also dealt with 08:11 exercise. We have never seen that before. Okay, 08:14 and that's because of course a problem with 08:15 obesity in America. America has just gotten too fat, 08:19 just too fat. And that comes from a sedentary lifestyle, 08:21 okay, and bad eating habits, fast foods okay. 08:24 And in that scenario what did Curtis so they went 08:26 through and instead of hitting even the dairy and 08:28 the meat kingdom, they talked more about whole grains. 08:32 For the first time we begin hearing a lot of information 08:36 about having five fruits and vegetables a day, 08:38 that's five each and also having whole grains, 08:41 brown rice and whole wheat bread and oatmeal and all 08:44 those type of foods in the diet. Because that fiber 08:47 component, because of that cholesterol component 08:50 where our body's taking in too much animal protein, 08:52 raising that our cholesterol level up very, very high 08:55 and causing a problem with once again the Calcium 08:57 situation for osteoporosis. And so with that in mind 09:01 we're talking more about more fruits and more 09:03 vegetables and of course we said this before on our 09:05 program. If you doing something like lets say, 09:09 if you want to know an apple, an orange medium size, 09:12 a medium size banana is considered as one serving. 09:15 If you want something like let's say vegetables 09:17 if you're doing a salad then that's one cup of raw 09:20 vegetables. Okay, if you are doing anything that's 09:22 cooked then that's a half a cup of any cooked 09:24 type vegetables and of course same thing with fruit, 09:27 you know the whole fruit medium size, 09:29 but if they're not cooked that we are talking about 09:31 a half of cup of cooked. Now when it comes with the 09:35 pasta and grains, I've got to say this, we're only 09:38 talking about a half a cup of pasta and a half a cup 09:43 of rice, alright, because we're looking at, basically 09:46 we're talking about a person taking it about 2000 09:48 calories a day. Basically women 2000 a day, 09:51 men between 2400 to 2600 calories a day 09:55 as those individuals who don't eat quite that much 09:58 but our concern is mainly that the normalcy to not 10:02 gain weight is about 2000 for women, 2400 to 2600 10:07 for men as well. Okay, so done with the plant based 10:09 whole grains, plant based; emphasizing the plant based 10:13 protein as apposed to animal protein. Well, I think 10:15 the animal protein is more higher up in the pyramid 10:18 chart. Absolutely, that's emphasizing, right, right, 10:20 very good. Well you know the other thing that we're 10:24 concerned about also and that is what about 10:26 nutrition for the bones. Okay, we're gonna have a 10:28 powerful statement I am going read on the screen, 10:30 before we go to the screen let me verify this author. 10:33 The author is named Ellen G White, a prolific author, 10:37 a Christian health educator and she's written in 1800s, 10:41 believed to be inspired by God about over 12 million 10:45 people around the world. The most translated author 10:48 in the United States, fourth in the entire world. 10:51 She makes a profound statement as far as our 10:54 bones are concerned in our health. Let's go to our 10:56 next graphic. The statement is this, 10:58 "Ministry of Healing page 295, Our bodies are built up 11:04 from the foods we eat, the bones demand theirs." 11:11 Therefore this author here talks about every organ, 11:14 muscle, gland and the body needs nutrition. 11:17 Certain body's parts need different nutritional 11:21 components and she mentions that the bones 11:24 in particular need their nutritional parts to build up 11:29 the bone matrix. Now having said that, let's look at 11:32 the calcium balance, because we're talking about 11:34 calcium and in our skeletal system houses practically 11:40 all the calcium within the body, in the skeletal 11:43 system. About 95 up to 99 percent of the calcium 11:47 is in the skeletal system. Less than about 5 percent 11:51 of the calcium is in our blood stream. But this is 11:54 what happened, this is calcium balance now 11:56 homeostasis. When the calcium in our blood stream 12:00 drops, it snatches the calcium from our skeletal 12:04 system to maintain the homeostasis in our blood 12:08 stream. When that happens of course our skeletal 12:12 system is robbed of the calcium, because we have a 12:15 deficiency of calcium in our system. The calcium 12:18 has to maintain homeostasis in our blood stream. 12:22 So there is a balance there, so having said that 12:24 we need to understand what are those calcium 12:27 rich foods honey? Let's talk about that first. 12:29 The calcium rich foods, well we talked about that 12:32 before on one of our programs and we talked 12:33 about that, we talking about like cereal in fact 12:35 for instance Total, Total, just three fourths of a cup of Total 12:40 has over 1,000 mg of calcium in it, alright, orange juice 12:44 one cup of orange juice has 350; this is that one has 12:48 calcium in it. Oh, okay, you see orange with calcium 12:50 also, 350 mg of calcium, okay, soy milk this is 12:55 fortified, 200 to 400 mg of calcium. Soy milk, okay, 13:01 Collard greens, Collard greens, one half of a cup, 13:04 180 milligrams of calcium, no animal protein in these, 13:10 no animals, beans of all type, Kidney, Pinto, 13:13 you name, all your legumes okay, has between 13:15 160, and 210. Okay, alright and of course Tofu 13:20 and why is that high? Because tofu not only 13:23 the bean itself has the highest amount of calcium 13:25 than any bean in the bean kingdom, Amen for Tofu, 13:29 when they make up Tofu they use a calcium starch 13:32 okay, that actually doubles the amount of calcium 13:36 which makes it higher in calcium than milk. 13:39 Oh, okay interesting so all those foods no animal 13:42 protein. So we're taking those foods because it 13:44 doesn't have animal protein, right, then we keep the 13:47 calcium in those foods, they're not excluded, 13:50 is that right? Absolutely, okay, wonderful, 13:51 wonderful, absolutely, absolutely, okay. 13:53 What about the role of our building of the bones 13:56 and bone matrix as far as calcium is concerned? 13:59 Okay, as I mentioned before the role again homeostasis 14:02 again, when the calcium drops in the blood stream 14:06 then the calcium in our skeletal system replaces 14:09 that and then of course our skeletal system is going to 14:11 be also impaired. So that's the role of calcium in our 14:14 system. It will maintain homeostasis, so that's the 14:17 role of calcium in the body. Now we have a graphic, 14:20 let's go to our next graphic and this is very profound 14:23 because as I mentioned before we need calcium 14:26 in our system. And it's the most prolific mineral 14:29 in the entire body. And then what's come next is 14:33 of course is phosphorus, so again calcium is there 14:37 the most major mineral in the entire body and most 14:40 of that over 95 percent is in the skeletal system. 14:44 You can see that graph there that we need the 14:46 calcium in our bones and also the phosphorus as well, 14:49 it's very important to have that, as far as we 14:52 are thinking the fact they are going to ask you and that is, 14:54 what about supplements. Okay. Now we have a 14:58 lot of supplements, people may be taking again, 15:01 we have the Calcitonin and that's very minimum 15:06 into injection or nasal, you know very little benefit 15:10 from the Calcitonin. You have the dolomite bone 15:14 meal, that's known to be very toxic, or lead 15:18 in particular. You have Evista, now Evista 15:22 is a hormone type of medication and but it can 15:28 cause blood clots from Evista. You have Fosamax, 15:32 now Fosamax is a non-hormonal drug. But with 15:36 that you have inflammation of the esophagus and also 15:39 it slows down the absorption of calcium when we do eat 15:43 foods. So all these supplementations do have 15:46 their downside, so what we emphasizing here, 15:49 in next week's program as well, is to increase our 15:52 calcium rich foods and to avoid animal protein at the 15:57 same time. We are also mentioning some other 15:59 things as well and again one more last thing about 16:02 the supplementation. You know go to a grocery store 16:05 now and a lot of the foods you have mentioned about 16:08 the Tofu that's now fortified with calcium. 16:11 According to the physician desk reference a lot of 16:15 foods are now fortified with calcium. There are different 16:17 types of calcium. You have Calcium carbonate, 16:21 calcium phosphate, calcium citrate, calcium lactate, 16:27 it goes all the way down the list. The most absorbable 16:30 type of calcium is according to the physician desk 16:34 reference is calcium carbonate about 41 percent, 16:39 calcium phosphate about 40 percent and then this 16:43 third is the calcium citrate and some of those 16:49 calcium supplementations are now fortified in your 16:51 soy milks. Okay, but the main thing is that you want 16:54 to make sure that, that calcium carbonate tends to 16:57 settle down at the bottom of the carton, that's why 17:01 it's said on the carton quite often, shake well, 17:05 shake well. When we shake it up then we get that 17:07 calcium carbonate otherwise 30 percent or more can be 17:11 at the bottom of the carton and we miss out on that 17:14 calcium carbonate or other type of calcium that has 17:16 been supplemented in those particular types of foods. 17:19 Well you can see that we've also moved into 17:22 the section of talking about now the vitamins and 17:24 minerals and foods that we should be eating, 17:26 plant based versus animal protein which is what we 17:29 always talk about on abundant living and also 17:31 here at 3ABN of having that plant based diet that 17:34 the original of the God, the original diet that God 17:37 gave to you and I, Amen, to keep us healthy. 17:40 Well I know you're wondering are we going to go 17:41 in Kitchen now? This is really surprise because, 17:43 I am actually going to make a sausage vegetable soup. 17:47 I and know you said, oh wait a minute just let me 17:49 talk about protein, that's animal protein. 17:51 This is a mock, oh, vegetable mock sausage 17:56 vegetable soup. So get your pen and 17:57 your paper and meet us in the kitchen. 17:59 Would you li |
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